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Q1265240 Dunagiri (7,066 m) is one of the high peaks of the Chamoli District Himalayas in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It lies at the northwest corner of the Sanctuary Wall, a ring of peaks surrounding Nanda Devi and enclosing the Nanda Devi Sanctuary. Dunagiri was first climbed on 5 July 1939 by the Swiss climbers André Roch, F. Steuri, and D. Zogg, via the southwest ridge. In 1975, Joe Tasker and Dick Renshaw climbed a particularly difficult route on the southeast buttress in a significant milestone for alpine-style climbing. In 1978 the first Australian Himalayan expedition by the Australian National University Mountaineering Club made the fourth ascent via the south-west ridge. Lincoln Hall and Tim Macartney-Snape made the final summit attempt with Macartney-Snape successfully summiting.
Q955192 Pere Riba is the defending champion, but he lost in the final to Albert Ramos-Viñolas 6–3, 3–6, 7–5.
Q6809593 Mehmet Dalman (born 1958) is a British-Turkish Cypriot investment banker. He is the chairman of Welsh football club Cardiff City.
Q7375662 Ruaidhrí Dall Ó Catháin (Rory Dall O'Cahan; possibly born c. 1580 Co. Antrim - possibly died 1653 at Eglinton Castle; fl. late 16th/early 17th century) was an Irish harper and composer.
Q6000763 Ilmari Richard Taipale (18 May 1928 in Tampere – 22 March 2008 in Porvoo) was a Finnish long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Q10261631 Cristiano Melo Araújo (January 24, 1986 – June 24, 2015) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Araújo was famous for the singles "Efeitos" (2011), "Você mudou" (2012), "Maus bocados"(2013), "Cê que sabe" (2014) and "É com ela que eu estou" (2014). After his album Efeitos in 2011 and live álbum/ DVD Ao Vivo em Goiânia in 2012, he released his solo studio album Continua in 2013. In 2014, he released his third live album In The Cities - Ao Vivo em Cuiabá. With most of his latest songs not making it onto a CD due to his sudden death.He was signed to the Brazilian Som Livre record label.
Q17514230 The Avawatz Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period.
Q18349693 Cynodraco is an extinct genus of non-mammalian theriodont synapsid from the late Permian of South Africa.
Q20924867 Lee Sung-jea (Korean: 이성제, Korean pronunciation: [iː.sʌŋ.dʑɛ]; born in 29 March 1968) is a South Korean football manager and former player.
Q25485000 Anastasiya Kisse (Bulgarian: Анастасия Антоновна Кисе; Ukrainian: Анастасія Антонівна Кіссе; born (1995-07-27)27 July 1995) is a Bulgarian and Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She represented her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.She holds both Bulgarian and Ukrainian citizenships.
Q28446267 The Bradshaw State Jail is a privately owned medium-security prison for men located in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, operated by Management and Training Corporation under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. and it has an official capacity of 1980 inmates. This facility was first opened by Management and Training Corporation in July 1995.
Q26254556 Gopalpur is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 86 kilometres (53 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 109 kilometres (68 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).
Q10502561 Gammarotettix aesculus is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America.
Q6123454 Jai Ram Reddy, CF (born 12 May 1937) is an Indo-Fijian politician, who has had a distinguished career in both the legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government. In 1998, he received Fiji's highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Fiji, in recognition of his services to his country.As leader of the National Federation Party (NFP), he was Leader of the Official Opposition from 1977 to 1983, and again from 1992 to 1999. He went on to serve as President of the Fiji Court of Appeal. He held this post briefly in 2000, and again from 2002 to 2003. On 31 January 2003, the United Nations General Assembly elected him as a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which is responsible for the prosecution of war crimes.
Q49264 Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, born May 10, 1963) is an American former naval flight officer and NASA astronaut. Born in Washington, D.C., she was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006, where she was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station.On February 5, 2007, she was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, who was romantically involved with astronaut William Oefelein. Nowak was released on bail, and initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included attempted kidnapping, burglary with assault, and battery. Her assignment to the space agency as an astronaut was terminated by NASA effective March 8, 2007. On November 10, 2009, Nowak agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to charges of felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery.Nowak remained a Navy captain until August 2010, when a naval board of inquiry, composed of three admirals, voted unanimously to reduce Nowak in rank to commander and to discharge her from the Navy under other than honorable conditions.
Q5918231 "How We Went to Mars" is a short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in March 1938 in the third and final issue of the magazine Amateur Science Stories. It is humorous story about a group of British rocket scientists who travel to Mars aboard one of their rockets and their interactions with Martian society.The short story was awarded the 1939 Retro Hugo at Loncon 3 in 2014.
Q7187943 Photowalking is a usually communal activity of camera enthusiasts who gather in a group to walk around with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that interests each photographer. Although the term implies the single activity of taking pictures while walking, the more modern use of the term specifically relates to a communal activity of camera enthusiasts.The activity is typically organized by camera clubs, ad hoc gatherings from online forums such as Facebook or Twitter, or sponsored by commercial organizations or photographers. These events usually take the form of a designated walking tour with a planned route or map. Often the aim is to practice and improve one's own photography skills rather than a specific focus on documentary photography.While the camera need not be a digital camera or a DSLR, in practice the low cost of digital photography and the ease of digital photo processing and online photo sharing allow a casual approach in photowalking.As with any walking that may go a few miles or kilometers, photowalking can also promote physical fitness and wellbeing.
Q4718229 The Zăvoi is a right tributary of the river Hârtibaciu in Romania. It discharges into the Hârtibaciu in Cornățel.
Q2051039 Papyrus 28 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓28, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains only one leaf with the text of the Gospel of John 6:8-12.17-22. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the late 3rd century.
Q6989466 Neil Aaron Weber (born December 6, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Weber played for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1998. In four career games, he had a 0-0 record with an 11.57 ERA. He batted and threw left-handed.Weber was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 8th round of the 1993 amateur draft. He now gives hitting and pitching lessons at Twin Ponds He lives in Palmyra, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters. He is a youth group leader for the Disciple Boyz at Evangelical Free Church of Hershey. In 2017 Weber was hired as the head coach of the Palmyra High School Baseball team. Pennlive.com named Weber the Mid-Penn Keystone Division 2018 coach of the year for leading the Palmyra High School baseball team to a share of the conference title.
Q16056495 Present Estonian system of rank insignia is a direct descendant of various systems used in the past in the Estonian Defence Forces. Some of the grades trace their name back to the period of World Wars, for instance, the rank of aspirant literally means an officer in training in military academies or voluntaries, serving as temporary officers.Most of the Estonian Army ranks were in most cases established during the Estonian War of Independence and in 1920s. These include the rank of kapral, which is a derivate of Italian caporale - much like the English equivalent of corporal. After the Soviet occupation ended in 1991, a new rank was established, creating for the first time a Brigadier General rank in the armed forces of Estonia. In Estonia rank insignia is worn on the chest. Estonian Junior NCOs are considered as a rank of a conscript NCO or NCO in reserve. In full-time service Junior Sergeants and Petty Officers 3rd Class are filling in various Soldier positions and naval ratings and are not taken as NCOs.
Q6740491 Makuta Station (馬来田駅, Makuta-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 13.9 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.
Q4026422 An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 31, 2071. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Q17113238 The Goodere baronetcy, of Burhope in the County of Hereford, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 5 December 1707 for Edward Goodere, later Member of Parliament for Evesham and Herefordshire. His son, the second Baronet, was childless and devised his estates to his sister's children and not to his younger brother, Samuel Goodere. Samuel, a Captain in the Royal Navy, had his brother murdered in revenge. Samuel, who nonetheless succeeded as third Baronet, was hanged for murder at Hot Wells, near Bristol, on 20 April 1741. Sir Edward's third son was killed in a duel. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1809.
Q7075504 "Obsession" is a song by American singer Sky Ferreira. The song was written and produced by Justin "DJ Frank E" Franks with OneRepublic members Ryan Tedder and Jerrod Bettis. It was released as a single on September 14, 2010, by Capitol Records. The song peaked at number 37 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart. The accompanying music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld, and portrays Ferreira's obsession with actor Michael Madsen.
Q14692661 Ironton Sintering Plant Complex is a group of buildings north of Crosby, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The plant was built in 1924 by the Hanna Mining Company to sintering iron ore mined in the Cuyuna Range. The mining industry, after 1900, was seeking to exploit lower-grade iron deposits to meet the increasing demand of the iron and steel industry. To bring the ore to customers' specifications, the mines sought to "beneficiate" the ore through sintering, crushing, and washing. The sintering process was unique to the Cuyuna Range and made it possible to economically support mining.The plant sits on the west shore of Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake, formerly an open mine pit. The plant contained eight structures at the time of nomination. The sintering structure and trestle consists of a tall, concrete structure, adjacent to a trestle that supported rail cars that were unloaded into the sintering chamber. The machine shops building was located immediately east of the sintering structure and trestle, and is built of steel with corrugated metal sheathing. Other buildings include a warehouse/shops building, a garage, an electric transformer building, an oil tank, and a dryhouse.
Q761001 Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base is the home base of the West Virginia Air National Guard 167th Airlift Wing located at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Q12124798 Hollow is a 2011 British found footage horror film, directed by Michael Axelgaard, starring Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Jessica Ellerby, and Matt Stokoe. The film is being distributed by Tribeca Film via nationwide On Demand outlets. Hollow premiered at Fantasia Festival. The film also screened at the Raindance Film Festival and was nominated for British Independent Film Award.
Q17103282 The following is a comprehensive discography of Starship, an American rock band which spun off from Jefferson Starship in 1985.
Q10462705 Cryptostroma corticale is a species of fungus that causes sooty bark disease of maples, particularly sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus). The spores grow profusely under the bark of affected trees or stacked logs. The fungus causes disease and death in trees, and the spores are allergenic and cause a debilitating pneumonitis (inflammation of the lungs) in humans.
Q17354861 Chinese Manichaeism is the form of Manichaeism (摩尼教 Móníjiào or 明教 Míngjiào, "bright religion") transmitted and practiced in China. Chinese Manichaeism identifies as a teaching with the purpose of awakening (佛 fú), and it is a monotheism worshipping the universal God (Shangdi, Míngzūn 明尊 "Radiant Lord" or Zhēnshén 真神 "True God"). Creation is the Living Spirit (淨活風 Jìnghuófēng) of God, of whom there have been many manifestations in human form, including Mani (摩尼 Móní).
Q23001001 Jerry Wayne Smith (born December 31, 1960) is an American soccer coach who is currently head coach of the women's soccer program at Santa Clara University.
Q3193297 Karine Le Marchand (born Karine Mfayokurera, 16 August 1968 Nancy), is a French television host.
Q7496891 Shimmer is New York City's Bitter Grace's long-awaited follow up to God and the Abyss. While Shimmer did not take as long to release, seven years to the twelve it took to finish the previous, the band still underwent line-up changes through the period of recording and releasing this album, however not as severely. Both bassists recorded on this album have left the band, though one of the guitarists that has been recorded here eventually returned in late 2005 just prior to its release after a hiatus.The difference in sound between God and the Abyss and Shimmer is striking, with the new direction of the band adding more elements of electronic dance music and a generally dancier sound. Keyboards are more prominent than before and the sound is less garage-centric and more melodic.The album itself is not released yet. Some tracks have been available for a while online and two initial singles, "Shimmering" and "Slave", have been receiving college and Internet radio airplay. Shimmer tells a modern-day gothic fairy tale about "the very clever boy, who was really never quite that clever" and the tracks themselves lead the story along.
Q6491891 Larue Wilson is a fictional character introduced in the Frederick Kohner novel Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957). She also appears in much of the television work involving Gidget.
Q16017745 John Alton Duncan (1932–2007) was a Manitoba lawyer and judge.
Q143895 Melocactus azureus is a species of cactus. It is endemic to Brazil, where it is known only from Bahia. It is locally abundant but the populations are fragmented and vulnerable to habitat degradation.
Q6325058 KALM (1290 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format to the Thayer, Missouri, United States, area. The station is currently owned by E-Communications, LLC and features programming from ABC Radio, Westwood One and Premiere Radio Networks.
Q4737791 Ukuroba (also, Uxuroba) is a village in the Khachmaz Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Yalama.
Q7820286 For the song of the same name written by Andy Prieboy, see ...Upon My Wicked SonTomorrow Wendy: A Love Story is a teen novel by Shelley Stoehr published in 1998 and republished in 2003. Set on Long Island, it deals with a teenage girl's experiences with drugs and sexuality.
Q4662053 Aaron Geddes Graham (born May 22, 1973) is a former professional American football center in the National Football League. While playing college ball for Nebraska he was recognized by the NCAA for "athletic accomplishments, academic achievements, character, leadership and other activities". He played six seasons for the Arizona Cardinals (1996–1999), the Oakland Raiders (2001), and the Tennessee Titans (2002).
Q6400910 Khathia Bâ (born October 22, 1990) is a Senegalese sprint canoer who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she was eliminated in the heats of the K-1 500 m event.
Q13426435 William Corden the Elder (21 January 1795 – 18 June 1867) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his commissions from the Royal Family in the mid nineteenth century.
Q2911660 Botaş SK is a sports club based in Adana. The major branch of the club is the women's basketball, currently performing at the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League (KBSL). The club also competes in athletics.Botaş is the first Turkish club to play a final game in European women's basketball. The club was the runner up at the Ronchetti Cup in 2001 and won the Turkish Super League and Cup titles twice. Venue of the basketball team is Menderes Sports Hall.Botaş SK is founded in 1984 and sponsored by Botaş Petroleum Pipeline Corporation since then.
Q5261175 Der Kämpfer ('The Fighter') was a German-language daily newspaper published in the Chemnitz-Zwickau area. Originally a newspaper connected to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), it became an organ of the Communist Party of Germany in January 1919. The newspaper was suppressed on May 2, 1919, but reappeared the following year.
Q7286157 Rajinder Kumar (born 3 April 1993, in Chandigarh) is an Indian footballer who plays as a forward for Bharat FC in the I-League.
Q16036855 Vanhoenacker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Marino Vanhoenacker (born 1976), Belgian triathleteMark Vanhoenacker, Belgian-American pilot and author
Q16267681 GlowTag is an upcoming PlayStation Move video game developed by Greenfly Studios for Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
Q16974237 Mira Angrist (born 1960) is a Hebrew language and Jewish culture specialist. She is the head of the Hebrew Language Program at Boston University. Angrist has taught at the Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University since 2008. Angrist is best known for her integration of authentic Israeli and Jewish cultural material and use of advanced technologies to stimulate classroom learning. She further specializes in writing Hebrew curricula and training Hebrew teachers.
Q14523274 Xymmer is a genus of ant in the subfamily Amblyoponinae containing the single species Xymmer muticus.
Q23419092 Amanda K. Hale is a Canadian writer. Born in England, she emigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied at Concordia University and received an M.A. in Creative Writing Drama. Now she divides her time between Toronto and British Columbia, the UK and Cuba. "As a creative person, Hale has travelled back and forth between visual art, theatre, and writing." Her first novel, Sounding the Blood, was "a finalist for the BC Relit Awards" and was included in NOW Magazine's Top Ten books for 2001, has been on several university reading lists in Canada, the U.S., and in Europe; and has been adapted as a screenplay. Her writing has been published in numerous Canadian and American literary magazines, and two of her books have been translated into Spanish.Hale has been active in the arts and writing community as a co-founder of the Company of Sirens (1985), and of Red Tree visual arts (1989); as a member of the Broadside feminist collective (1982–88); as vice-president of the Hornby Island Arts Council, and as a board member of the Hornby Island Festival Society.
Q2942636 Chieti Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Chieti; Cattedrale di San Giustino) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Chieti (Abruzzo, Italy), dedicated to Saint Justin of Chieti (San Giustino). Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Chieti, it is now the seat of the Archbishops of Chieti-Vasto.The cathedral was constructed in the 9th century and rebuilt in the 13th.
Q18672718 Sir William Richard Joseph Cook, (10 April 1905 – 16 September 1987) was a British mathematician and civil servant.A graduate of Bristol University, he joined the staff of the Woolwich Arsenal in 1928, working on the 6-inch naval guns and the 3-inch antiaircraft rocket. During the Second World War he was deputy controller of the Projectile Development Establishment. After the war he became director of the Ministry of Supply's Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire. In 1947 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service, serving as its chief from 1950 to 1954, when he became deputy head of the Weapons Group of the newly created United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). It was under his leadership that Britain developed the hydrogen bomb, and he was present as the scientific director of the Operation Grapple nuclear tests at Malden Island in May and June 1957, and the successful thermonuclear test at Christmas Island in November 1957. In 1958, he became the UKAEA's Member for Engineering and Production, and oversaw the expansion of the civil nuclear power industry.Cook returned to the Ministry of Defence in 1960 as one of two deputies to the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence. Cook served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1966 until 1970, when he retired from the civil service. He oversaw the development of weapons such as the Panavia Tornado, Rapier surface-to-air missile, SEPECAT Jaguar and FH70 howitzer. After Rolls Royce went bankrupt in 1970, he chaired a committee that determined that the Rolls-Royce RB211 engine should be continued. When Rolls Royce was nationalised in 1971, he was appointed one of the company's directors. He retired in 1976, but continued to assist the company for four more years. He was also a director of GEC Marconi Electronics from 1972 to 1979, and Marconi International Marine from 1971 to 1975, and a consultant to British Telecom from 1982 to 1985.
Q6769359 Mark David Quinn (born May 21, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Kansas City Royals and former coach for the Baltimore Orioles. Quinn was drafted in the 11th round of the 1995 Amateur Draft after playing two seasons for the Rice University Owls. He played for the Royals between 1999–2002. He retired for good in 2007 after spring training with the Yomiuri Giants.
Q4032986 The AN/SPN-46(V)1 is a Precision Approach and Landing System, manufactured in the United States, by Textron Systems, which is used on aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The radar uses two dual-band radar antennas, which also function as transmitters, to guide planes or helicopters to the ship.
Q3494323 Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (; Greek: Σπύρος Σκούρας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a Greek-American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, but served as chairman of the company for several years. He also had numerous ships, owning Prudential Lines.Skouras and two brothers came to the United States as immigrants in 1910; Spyros kept such a pronounced Greek accent in English that comedian Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week." Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra (1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the development of Century City.His grandchildren include Charles P. Skouras III, a film and television executive. His great-granddaughter Marielle Skouras has produced more than 25 television shows and created Beverly Hills Pawn, a hit reality show on REELZchannel.
Q878849 Daniel Bashiel Warner (April 19, 1815 – December 1, 1880) served as the 3rd President of Liberia from 1864 to 1868. Prior to this, he served as the 5th Vice President of Liberia under President Stephen Allen Benson from 1860 to 1864, and as the 3rd Secretary of State in the cabinet of Joseph Jenkins Roberts from 1854 to 1856.
Q6370819 Karin Maria Argoud (born November 8, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sonja Harper in the American sitcom Mama's Family for its first two seasons.Argoud made her first Hollywood acting appearance in the ABC Afterschool Special program Tough Girl (1981). After Mama's Family was canceled by NBC, then put into syndication, Argoud's character was written out of the series, along with fellow cast member Eric Brown's character, Buzz Harper (Sonja's brother). Her character supposedly went off to college, but was only mentioned by her grandmother, Thelma (Vicki Lawrence), once in the third-season premiere.In 2000, Argoud appeared in the film The Stonecutter.
Q183518 The 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series was the 59th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 36th modern-era Cup series. Beginning on February 10 at Daytona International Speedway with the Budweiser Shootout, the season ended on November 18 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Ford 400. The Chase for the Nextel Cup started with the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway and was contested over the final ten races.The season was the final year that the NASCAR Cup Series was known as the Nextel Cup Series. As a result of the 2005 merger of Nextel Communications with Sprint Corporation, and the subsequent decision by the newly named Sprint Nextel Corporation, the name of the series was changed to the Sprint Cup Series for 2008. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports won his second consecutive championship, with teammate Jeff Gordon finishing second. Chevrolet captured the NASCAR Manufacturers' Championship with 26 wins, and 290 points over second place Ford who had 7 wins and 208 points. Dodge finished third with 3 wins and 178 points and Toyota, in their first NEXTEL Cup season, finished out with no wins and 116 points.
Q5380190 Enter the Game of Death (Hanja: 十字手拳, Chinese: 死亡魔塔), originally released as Cross Hands Martial Arts and released in North America as The King of Kung Fu, is a Bruceploitation martial arts film. This film was directed by Lee Tso-nam, who helmed previous Bruceploitation films Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger and Fist of Fury II, and features an early appearance by Steve James who would later go on to star in the American Ninja film series.
Q7153674 Paul Smith (born January 31, 1978) is a former American football player.
Q5490966 Solanum ensifolium is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family endemic to Puerto Rico. Commonly known as Erubia, it is nearly extinct due to habitat loss.SynonymsSolanum drymophilum O.E.SchulzSolanum longifolium Pav. ex DunalSolanum congestiflorum var. longifolium is S. crispumSolanum longifolium of Sessé & Mociño actually refers to the S. muricatum of Aiton.Solanum longifolium of Dunal is Solanum subinerme.Solanum nudum var. longifolium refers to S. sieberi
Q5270212 Diacanthos is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae.
Q634144 Camon (Occitan: Camon) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Nicknamed Little Carcassonne, it is one of the most beautiful villages of France.
Q5120862 Cinepazet is a vasodilator and is an ethyl ester derivative of cinepazic acid.
Q4981303 Brzeziniec [bʐɛˈʑiɲɛt͡s] (German: Birkhof) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Dębnica Kaszubska, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Dębnica Kaszubska, 13 km (8 mi) south-east of Słupsk, and 94 km (58 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.The settlement has a population of 33.
Q6964514 Naoda (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Q6615532 Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Maryland. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre feet (6,200,000 m3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre feet (31,000,000 m3).
Q2210685 Sachsenspiegel is a news programme on MDR Fernsehen, the regional television station of the German Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The programme is shown from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. and has been transmitted in the German state of Saxony since January 1992. For the first few years, the programme was only shown from Monday to Saturday but since 1997 it has also been on Sunday. Sachsenspiegel features daily regional news on the topics of politics, the economy, sport, science and culture. Major national or international news is also reported at the beginning of the programme. The thirty-minute programme usually has three or four major items as well as additional minor items and an overview of the news. There is a separate sports section, which precedes the weather report.The predecessor of Sachsenspiegel was Bei uns in Sachsen, which, from 1988 to 1991, used to air at 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. on the former East German station Deutscher Fernsehfunk.The programme is produced in the Saxon capital of Dresden. Since 21 July 2008, the programme has been made completely in a "virtual studio". The installation of the necessary tracking and rendering technology and the creation of the virtual studio world took almost one year to complete.The programme is repeated during the night.MDR Sachsenspiegel can be received via the following systems: DVB-T, on the Internet via Zattoo, analog by cable and digital by cable and DVB-S. When Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is received analog by satellite , the MDR news programme Länderzeit, transmitted from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. includes a number of items from the regional programmes Sachsenspiegel, Sachsen-Anhalt heute and Thüringen Journal. Sachsenspiegel is transmitted via DVB-S on the regional channel MDR Sachsen.It is also streamed live on the MDR Web site.
Q15401574 Irina Alexandra Pop (born 8 October 1988) is a Romanian born Dominican team handball player. She plays for the club Associació Lleidatana d'Handbol (Spain) and on the Dominican Republic national team. She competed at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where the Dominican Republic placed 23rd.
Q20641130 Antonio José López Martínez (born 5 September 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Cartagena. Mainly a central defender, he can also play as a right back.
Q11386969 Shinji Kurano (倉野 信次, Kurano Shinji, born September 15, 1974 in Obata, Mie, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.
Q42887525 David Warren (born 11 February 1956) is a British middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Q575822 The Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque; Portuguese pronunciation: [tumukuˈmaki]) is situated in the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. It is bordered to the north by French Guiana and Suriname.
Q2141938 William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament, including abolishing "rotten boroughs", would ease the poverty of farm labourers. Relentlessly he sought an end to borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" (meaning a wide class of overpaid or corrupt bureaucrats). He opposed the Corn Laws, which imposed a tax on imported grain. Early in life he was a loyal devotee of King and Country, but he later pushed for radicalism, which helped the Reform Act 1832 and his election that year as one of two MPs for the newly enfranchised borough of Oldham. He strongly advocated of Catholic Emancipation. His polemics cover subjects from political reform to religion. His best known book is Rural Rides (1830, still in print).
Q7983382 Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: WERN) is an American freight carrier and transportation and logistics company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. It was founded in 1956 by Executive Chairman, Clarence L. (C.L.) Werner. He started his business with one truck at the age of 19. The company has two divisions - Truckload Transportation Services and Werner Logistics. At the end of 2017, Truckload division has 7,435 trucks and Werner Logistics has 45 drayage trucks.C.L. Werner, the company's founder and first driver, stepped down from the position of chief executive officer as part of the planned management transition announced in August 2015 and will remain as executive chairman of the company. Derek Leathers was promoted to president and CEO in May 2016.Werner ships throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia, Europe, South America, Africa and Australia. It has a fleet of 7,400 trucks and more than 24,000 trailers. In 2015, their net profit was estimated as being $123.7 million.
Q7536057 Skobelev Park (Скобелев парк) is a museum park in the vicinity of Pleven, Bulgaria. It was built between 1904 and 1907 on the very battlefield of the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, specifically the third assault of General Mikhail Skobelev's detachment between 30 August and 11 September 1877. The park is located in a valley called Martva dolina (Мъртва долина, "Dead Valley") because of the 6,500 killed and injured Russian and Romanian soldiers during the battle. Their remains are stored in nine common graves and an ossuary. Dozens of Russian cannons from the war are arranged as batteries in the park, which is a favoured place for walks by the residents of Pleven.The Pleven Panorama, another landmark dedicated to the events of the Siege of Plevna, is located in Skobelev Park.
Q2221630 Theretra silhetensis, the brown-banded hunter hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by Francis Walker in 1856. It lives in Indo-Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, East Australia, Solomon Islands, Fiji Islands, Vanuatu Islands.
Q7591980 The High School of Saint Thomas More (STM) is the only private, Roman Catholic comprehensive, co-educational high school in Champaign, Illinois. It is located in the far northwest part of Champaign. The school has an enrollment of 266 for the 2018-19 academic term. STM reports that 99% of all of their graduates have attended a post-secondary college or university.
Q961435 Takatsukasa Sukehira (鷹司 輔平, March 17, 1738 – February 8, 1813), adopted son of Mototeru, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku from 1787-1791. Masahiro was his son who he had with a daughter of the eighth head of Chōshū Domain Mori Shigetaka. Additionally, he was a grandson of Emperor Higashiyama and thus a paternal uncle of Emperor Kōkaku.Due to the frequent adoption between families of Fujiwara clan, Sukehira had modern agnatic descendants under the family names Tokudaiji (德大寺), Kikutei (菊亭), Hanazono (華園), Kajino (梶野), Takachiho (高千穗), Nakanoin (中院), Sumitomo (住友), Muromachi (室町), Yamamoto (山本), Kitakawara (北河原), Senshū (千秋).
Q2581005 William Waterhouse (18 February 1931 – 5 November 2007) was a distinguished English bassoonist and musicologist. He played with notable orchestras, was a member of the Melos Ensemble, professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, author of the Yehudi Menuhin Music Guide "Bassoon", of The New Langwill Index, and contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Q5545329 Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley (22 November 1842 – 13 September 1910) was an English civil servant, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.Bartley was born at Stoke Newington, the son of Robert Bartley and his wife Julia Anne Lucas. He was educated at Clapton, London and University College School. He entered public service and worked for twenty years at the Science and Art Department, becoming Assistant Director. He was interested in poverty and social issues and published works on education and on building self-reliance He supported technical education, and was treasurer of the Society of Arts. He established a Penny Bank, which became the National Penny Bank. He was a J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster.Trout Bartley stood for parliament in Hackney at the 1880 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North at the 1885 general election and held the seat until his defeat in 1906. He announced that he would stand again when a suitable opportunity arose, and contested the Hull West by-election in November 1907. The intervention for the first time of a Labour Party candidate cut the Liberal majority, but not by enough for Bartley to win the seat, and after his defeat in Hull he did not stand for Parliament again.In 1902 he was knighted as KCB. He was a member of the Traffic Commission and travelled extensively. He was in South Africa when the Boer War broke out.In 1864, Bartley married Mary Charlotte Cole the daughter of Henry Cole superintendent of the Science and Art Department. They had four sons. Their son Captain Stanhope Cole Bartley Royal Artillery was KIA 12/03/1916.
Q7865055 Unc-51-like kinase 2 (C. elegans) also known as ULK2 is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the ULK2 gene. The gene is located within the Smith-Magenis syndrome region on chromosome 17.
Q402435 Ptilodon cucullina, the maple prominent, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe.The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The moths are on wing from May to July depending on the location.The larvae feed on Acer campestris and sometimes Acer pseudoplatanus.
Q5045824 The Carpinteria Valley Museum of History (CVMH) is a museum located in Carpinteria, California. It is operated by the non-profit Carpinteria Valley Historical Society primarily through membership dues, memorial donations, endowment income and fund-raising activities. The museum is staffed by volunteer docents.
Q4772038 Anthony Athanas (July 28, 1911 – May 20, 2005) was a multi-millionaire Albanian-American restaurateur and philanthropist. His restaurants included Anthony's Pier 4, known throughout United States. In 1976 the National Restaurant Association named him Restaurateur of the Year.
Q91615 Peter Gojowczyk (born 15 July 1989) is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 39 in June 2018.
Q13523402 Secusio sansibarensis is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Strand in 1909. It is found in Tanzania (Zanzibar).
Q17017238 HMCS Runnymede was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for York, Ontario, however due to possible confusion with HMCS West York, her name reflects a connection with that community.Prince Rupert was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program. She was laid down on 11 September 1943 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal, Quebec and launched 27 November later that year. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 14 June 1944 at Montreal.
Q20687362 Thein Tun (Burmese: သိန်းထွန်း; born 1937) is a Burmese businessman and founder of Myanmar Golden Star. He is best known for introducing Pepsi into the Burmese market through Myanmar Golden Star in 1991. He has benefited from close connections with Tun Kyi, a former Burmese general. Thein Tun also founded Tun Foundation Bank. In 2014, he acquired majority stake in Myanmar Consolidated Media, which owns Myanmar Times.Thein Tun was married to Nelly Than. He has 2 sons and one daughter. His son, Thant Zin Tun, is president of Mandalay Novotel Hotel and LP Holding Group, while another son, Oo Tun, is managing director of MGS Beverages. His only daughter, Mi Mi Tun, is an executive director at MGS Beverages. Thein Tun's son-in-law, Aung Moe Kyaw, owns International Beverages Trading.
Q20922229 Edward Walkington was an Anglican bishop in the late seventeenth century.He was born in Loughgur and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Chaplain of the Irish House of Commons then Archdeacon of Ossory from 1793 until 1795 when he became Bishop of Down and Connor. He died in January 1699.
Q21754205 Mutawaseta (Arabic: المتوسطة‎) is a Syrian village located in Sinjar Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Mutawaseta had a population of 616 in the 2004 census.
Q23044895 This is a list of women artists who were born in South Korea or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
Q68719 Alexander Wright (born May 17, 1975) is a British-German former professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. He wrestled professionally in Germany and Japan before signing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994. He remained a prominent mid-card performer during his seven-year tenure with WCW, including reigns as a one time Cruiserweight Champion, a one time World Television Champion and a one time World Tag Team Champion (with Disco Inferno).He was the owner, founder and CEO of New Sport Entertainment GmbH which is the company that owns New European Championship Wrestling.
Q849199 The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
Q741685 Master of the Moon is the tenth and final studio album by the American heavy metal band Dio. The album was released on September 7, 2004 in America through Sanctuary Records and August 30, 2004 in Europe through SPV Records. It was produced by Ronnie James Dio.
Q11341622 The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on drums, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on bass. Previously, the band featured George Young on tenor sax, Eddie Gómez on bass, and Steve Gadd on drums.The group was formed in 1983 at the suggestion of Japanese jazz magazine Swing Journal and the King record label and won the Gold Disk Award of Swing in 1984.Gadd left in 1987, with Dave Weckl serving as a replacement in 1988 and 1989, but came back for a reunion in 1990, with John Scofield as guest artist on a number of selections. These later recordings were recorded for the Sweet Basil label.Gomez left the band after the recording of Manteca in 1992 and was replaced by Charnett Moffett. Gadd left the band, with Victor Lewis becoming his permanent replacement in 1993; Young left in 2000 and was replaced by Andy Snitzer.Due to the group's extremely limited distribution in other countries (albums are only available as imports from Japan), it is not well known outside Japan.
Q4272591 The transition from Sui to Tang refers to the transition period between the end of the Sui dynasty and the start of the Tang dynasty, when the former dynasty's territories were carved into a handful of short-lived states by its officials, generals, and agrarian rebel leaders, and the process of elimination and annexation that followed which ultimately culminated in the consolidation of the Tang dynasty by the former Sui general Li Yuan. The transition started roughly around the year of 613 when Emperor Yang of Sui launched his first of three failed campaigns against Goguryeo, leading to a number of desertions in the army and the start of agrarian revolt against the Sui, and ended in 628, when Emperor Gaozu's son Li Shimin annexed the agrarian rebel ruler Liang Shidu's state of Liang, thereby once again unifying most of China under a single power.
Q550274 The yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus, Gubernatrix.It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and temperate grassland.It is threatened by habitat loss and from pet trade trappers.The term "yellow cardinal" or "yellow morph" may also describe a northern cardinal which is yellow because it lacks the usual enzyme which converts yellow pigments in food to the red pigments in the feathers of most of its species. Sightings are rare.The current global population of the Gubernatrix cristatal is between 1000 and 2000 (BirdLife International). Separates populations of yellow cardinal have unique traits. Studies have shown that there are some genetic differences between different populations. Another study has shown that yellow cardinal presents plasticity in song production. From four different populations, they are small differences in their songs.
Q3576849 "À nos actes manqués" is a 1991 song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones (the song was credited to Fredericks Goldman Jones). Released as the second single from their eponymous album, the song was one of the summer hits in France and was the trio's most successful single in terms of ranks on the chart. In 2011, M. Pokora covered the song on his album Mise à Jour and released it as a single, which achieved some success in French-speaking countries. The trio also released an English version, To The Deeds We Missed.